How to Cover Your Tracks Online | Internet Safety | Oasis Domestic Abuse Service

Cover Your Tracks

Minimise the chance of someone knowing you have visited this website

Quickly hide the page

Use the ‘Exit Now’ button in the top right corner of this website to quickly hide the page – it will direct you to the Google homepage. You will still need to delete your browsing history fully to cover your tracks

Location

Use the internet somewhere other than at home; at a local library, a friend’s house, or at work, if possible.

Private browsing

Use “Private Browsing” or “Incognito” windows to view information online that you do not wish to have stored on your internet history (online services can still see your history but it won’t leave traces of your activity on your computer – history, web cache)

Internet Explorer
Click the Safety button — select Tools — select ‘InPrivate Browsing’

Firefox
Click the Menu button with three horizontal lines — select ‘New Private Window’

Microsoft Edge
Click the three dots in the top right of the page — select ‘New InPrivate window’

Chrome
Click the Menu button with three horizontal lines — select ‘New Incognito Window’

Safari
Click the File button — select ‘New Private Window’

Delete your browsing history

Go to the ‘history’ section of your browsing page, find any entries that say www.oasisdaservice.org.uk, right-click on this and choose Delete.

Antispy software

Install free antispy software for your computer: Windows | Apple